Faith and Football: On the Religious Formation of the Fan
Jonathan Lett considers how the formation of the fan shapes the soul.
Jonathan Lett considers how the formation of the fan shapes the soul.
Marilynne Robinson’s novels have become almost synonymous with loneliness, but solitude here remains entangled with a less acknowledged trope—an enveloping and dazzling darkness.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s recent film, The Stanford Prison Experiment, is itself a theological, cinematic experiment.
Jocelyn Grau reviews the paintings of Justin Bower.
Through the lens of James Baldwin’s black intellectual imagination, Quentin Tarantino’s slave revenge fantasy, Django Unchained, becomes a terrifying allegory of white progressive identity in America today.
A reflection comparing word-based spiritual practices to embodied ones such as yoga.
In this piece, Paul Hobbs explores the difference between seeing humanity as interconnected and seeing humanity as a number of disposable and replaceable units.
That contemporary America is captivated by the phenomenon of celebrity is hardly a contestable observation. Even those of us who try to limit the impact of celebrity on our life find that its tenacity is hard to overcome. Some try to overcome the impact of celebrity by willing its insignificance. But that some energy is […]
Grant Morrison’s Kill Your Boyfriend is still one of my favorite one-shots’ of all time. I’ve tried and tried to craft some deft theological spin on it. I’ve failed every time. At the end of the day, it very well may be Morrison just being Morrison. You know, ripping on the world for not being […]